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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The backlash over the joke is dumb, but it’s not surprising. A lot of people simply don’t get or like standup comedy. They feel it’s too mean. Or it’s fine when the target of a joke is someone they hate, but they turn into humourless scolds when they disapprove of the target.
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Yup. To these people, they're only jokes when they're saying something they agree with. The second it comes around the other direction now they're not jokes, they're taken as statements.
And every single one of them sounds the same. "Listen, I have a great sense of humour. I find x funny, I find y funny, but this, this was not funny. It's mean and 'insert outrage here'"
Yes, if you take all context away from the situation, it would be mean. But you can't strip away context. You have to go 'Is that person a comedian? Oh so he's just screwing around'
You certainly don't have to find it funny or agree with it, but you don't get to tell the rest of us what's a joke and what's a statement. That's just so arrogant